Who do you think you are

Did anyone watch this tonight (Thursday 6th september). with Natasha kaplinsky. It was very moving and poignant in the second half, very much a case for "here but for the grace of god " .
 Next weeks should be good as its John hurt.
 I am surprised the United States haven't cottoned on to this, i an sure lots loads of American celebs would love to trace their family tree, most of them heading over here

I didn't watch last night, but I did see the Stephen Fry one sometime this year. (Fantastic) Looking at the list of people, I wish I had watched more often.

I'm going to set the timer to catch next weeks.  Thank you!

I didn't watch it either, but I do try to catch this show when I can.  It's really interesting.   

They sometimes show repeats of old episodes of Who Do You Think You Are on Biography. Good stuff!

I saw last night's episode. I wanted to cry but was watching with a very cynical person (not by choice - a co-worker I was staying overnight with) so had to keep it to myself.

The bit where her cousin (or is it uncle?) sang in the ruined synagogue was so moving. Anyone who has family who survived the holocaust should try to catch the episode. As should anyone just interested in that part of history. Yes, it is indeed 'there but for the grace of God'.

I saw last night's episode. I wanted to cry but was watching with a very cynical person (not by choice - a co-worker I was staying overnight with) so had to keep it to myself.

The bit where her cousin (or is it uncle?) sang in the ruined synagogue was so moving. Anyone who has family who survived the holocaust should try to catch the episode. As should anyone just interested in that part of history. Yes, it is indeed 'there but for the grace of God'.

Oh wow!  OK, now I really want to see this one!

 i think it will be repeated but not sure when

I watched it today and I was very tearful during the bit when she was in Poland exploring her family history. 

I have always had major issues (i.e. - whaling at times) when it comes to watching any program/movie that relates to the Holocaust.  :\\\'(

I'm not Jewish, but I think the Holocaust stunned the entire world. I remember watching a miniseries titled "Holocaust" when I was about 10, and I always cried after each episode, although it was about a fictitious family. I also watched "The Diary of Anne Frank," another miniseries, which was equally depressing. Needless to say, I've also seen Schindler's List. That was heartbreaking. So was Sophie's Choice.

It was a moving episode.  Its amazing how much people don't know about their family history.  Watching that episode has inspired me to start doing a family tree as my mother's parents (especially my grandfather) don't really talk about their family history much. 

Anyone know when they are re-running it?
thanks!

Not sure. The latest series just started with this one.

The series will be shown on Thursdays, 9pm, BBC ONE, from 6 September. The running order of the series is as follows:
Natasha Kaplinsky - 6 September
John Hurt - 13 September
Griff Rhys Jones - 20 September
Carol Vorderman - 27 September
Alistair McGowan - 4 October
Graham Norton - 11 October
Matthew Pinsent - 18 October

I didn't watch this one but have seen others, it's usually pretty interesting. There's a similar programme on, I think, Sky1, but it's for "normal" people, ie not celebrities.

We don't watch it faithfully.  I saw a couple episodes on last year's series, and then we watched the one the other night with John Hurt.  Unfortunately, I'm usually getting pretty sleepy by the time 9 pm rolls around (getting old!) -- so I ended up waking myself up in the middle of the show with a snorty snore!   (And then I went to bed.)

Hee hee, so I never did get to see if he was the great-great-great...child of the Marquess of Sligo.  Although Steve informed me next day that at the end, John Hurt found out that his great-great-great...grandparents apparently made the whole thing up!

Then we got to talking about my husband's surname & how it's common to both the Norfolk & the Peak District areas here in England --- Steve out of the Norfolk bunch.  And there's a Lord B... (by peerage, we think, not by heritage) who is/was a big wig in Barclays bank.  So I'm saying -- Well why don't we work out how we are related to these people, so we can introduce ourselves?  Lol!

So he's been working his way back through his family tree using an online database.  His cousin has apparently already done a lot of the work on this.  So far, he's found a great-great-great...grandmother who was a charlady & who lodged with a pauper -- not making much upwardly mobile social progress there.   And he's found out he had a great-great-great...grandfather who was born in the West Indies (later moving to England) -- which surprised him.  I said he ought to have his DNA thingie done!

I want to try this after I get some of family paperwork out of storage in Florida!  My dad's side of the family is sketchy because his birth parents both died when my dad was in infancy & he was unofficially adopted by his aunt/uncle -- taking their surname for the rest of his life, even though there were never any official adoption papers (this was 1913-1914 time).  The interesting bit -- that I most want to know more about, is that his biological father was a Danish immigrant to the US, who -- if the family story is to be believed -- joined the rodeo & died being killed either by a bull or a bronco or something like that.  Now what on earth compelled a Dane to move over there & join the rodeo?  Or is it even true?  And I'd just like to know more about my Danish ancestry, in general.

On my mom's side, I have an ancestor who was one of the first colonists in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut - circa 1635.  He was either born in Virginia Colony (1620) on en route by sea from England to Virginia Colony.  (He may have moved back to England somewhere in there, before ending up in Connecticut.)

Sorry for the lateness but I was just scanning for things to record and noticed that the program about NK and her family history will be rebroadcast tonight on BBC1 at 12:55 am.

I remembered this thread for those that didn't see it, so just thought I would post it.

Set Sky+ if you want to record it.